An article about her work at Oculus and Meta: XR Update

No Frame today, it looks like.

  • smeenz@lemmy.nz
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    10 天前

    Wouldn’t it be great if turning that giant valve actually did something. Like…I dunno, someone in the next room shouts “turn that back on right now !”

  • Alcan@lemmy.world
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    10 天前

    Amanda after 15 mins: wait, don’t we want to steal every piece of data of every user??

  • ikt@lemmy.world
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    10 天前

    why does this have so many upvotes? when did a bunch of neets turn this place into linkedin

    edit: i just realised you’re all virgins and this is a girl getting a job so you think if you give updoots she’ll hold your hand

    • Err(()).unwrap()@lemmy.worldOP
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      10 天前

      Says a lot about you that, of all of her achievements and qualifications, and the fact that she not just revolutionized but practically created the field of consumer-grade wireless VR… you get stuck on her being a woman.

      God’s menagerie is vast, but the fences are low.

      • ikt@lemmy.world
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        10 天前

        im not questioning the woman im questioning the number of upvotes for such a boring and meaningless post

    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
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      10 天前

      I never considered it before, but do you think she might? Maybe pat me on the head and call me a good boy?

    • thedoginthewok@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 天前

      I was wondering that!

      I thought the Steam Frame was going to be available “soon”, so it came as a bit of a surprise that they just hired someone to work on it.

      • niisyth@lemmy.caEnglish
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        10 天前

        They did release dramatic updates to the Steam Deck post release. Worked out well for that, no reason they’d stop.

      • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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        11 天前

        Yes, but it makes sense in relation to other posts. It is just frustrating after longer period of time then a few minutes or hours, or when screenshot like this.

        • gibmiser@lemmy.world
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          11 天前

          I think the compromise is a visual indicator of age - color or an icon indicating recency, in addition to a good old fashioned date timestamp.

          • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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            11 天前

            I’m not a fan of coloring for age of post. Usually the compromise is, when mouse hover it will show the actual date in a on hover popup. How about when clicking the time it changes to a timestamp (and back) or while mouse is hovering / touching the time it changes on the fly (without any hover tip, Edit: I just realized that most people don’t use a mouse on their phone :D also this would require dynamic changing with JavaScript).

        • [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish
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          11 天前

          The layouts generally have room to state time in relation and the actual time. Even a simple date would be better than only relational. Most hide the real time in a hover over or click on the relational time whoch isn’t captured in a screenshot.

          Social media screenshots are so common it is time to update to show both be default.

          • 4am@lemmy.zip
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            11 天前

            But then it wouldn’t drive you crazy, and you wouldn’t sign up and find the post just to find out the actual time

            And if you don’t make the conversion then that’s basically stealing /s ^but not really, they actually think like this^

        • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
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          11 天前

          no, it’s not just show me the damn time it was posted. I hate when only relative information is given.

        • athatet@lemmy.zip
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          11 天前

          So then what you’re saying is it’s not fine. Cause screenshots of Twitter is basically all the internet is these days.

      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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        11 天前

        It makes perfect sense when using the website. The problem isn’t the timestamp, it’s the lazy people who share fuzzy inaccessible screenshots instead of links.

  • dan69@lemmy.world
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    10 天前

    Is it true that their only like 5 engineers (exaggerated obviously and rule all of valve code)?

    • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 天前

      I reject the notion that technological advancement requires teams of hundreds of engineers.

      That being said, the above statement is less and less true every year (look to physics atm), but VR still has a lot of low hanging fruit that need funding OR passion, not necessarily both

  • Clbull@lemmy.world
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    10 天前

    Meta’s push towards virtual and augmented reality has clearly been a massive failure from the billions they invested into the “metaverse” only to come up with a shitty VRChat clone that lasted mere months. Meanwhile the only reason they’re really in the news lately is because they stole Google’s failed smart glasses concept, paired up with Ray-Ban and made the ultimate tool for creeps to record and harass women without their consent.

    Valve are wise to poach their talent who have undoubtedly been throigh wave after wave of mass layoffs. The only other more significant hire they could have made other than Amanda would have been somehow bringing the fourth-dimensional being housed in a meatsuit known as John Carmack on board. But he’s busy with AGI.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.net
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      10 天前

      According to the article linked, she left Meta already in 2022 (anticipating the layoffs that followed soon after). Still a good talent for Valve to pick up now that they got into wireless VR with the Frame.

    • Naz@sh.itjust.works
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      10 天前

      I can’t give you anything more than an upvote, so here’s a positive comment on your insightfulness/accuracy +1

  • AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml
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    10 天前

    Has there been any news on some kind of proper VR desktop? Not a version of windows but something that is a new OS shell and can be used with a keyboard and allows task switching and using multiple VR apps at once?

      • AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml
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        10 天前

        It should definitely be on the basis of linux, but not really what I mean. I mean a UI OS shell optimized for VR and things like eye tracking and controllers and how to switch from controller to keyboard. This is like an unsolved problem afaik. Like IOS and android designed a new shell for a non-desktop platform. I read a bit about Apple Vision Pro how they designed their UI widgets with eye tracking in mind.

        At the minimum I want to be able to play a VR game like Elite Dangerous and pull up a video chat panel or browser window / notepad to look up stuff without exiting the game.

      • AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml
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        10 天前

        Thanks! And yeah I expect higher resolution to be the real killer app for VR. Once you can actually replace a multi monitor setup with VR?

        • poVoq@slrpnk.net
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          10 天前

          I was told the Apple headset’s resolution is like the lower limit in resolution for that to work ok, so I guess those type of screens will come to more affordable HMDs some time in the future.